On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 23:29, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> The new git repository will have different SHA1s for all of the commits,
> so any old SHA1s will be useless without the old repository.
>
> Hopefully nobody used links to specific commits (or SHA1s) pointing to
> the old git repository for anything important. But I found myself doing
> so occasionally for unimportant things (if it was important, I included
> the date as a safeguard) -- so I assume a few other people did, as well.
>
> Would it be worth keeping the old git repository around in a read-only
> mode, just in case people have links/SHA1s floating around for it?
It might well be, and the cost is low. But if you're talking about
gitweb links or so, they'll still be invalid, because it would have to
be renamed to "postgresql-old" or something like that...
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